So only one game out of the four NFL playoff matchups this weekend had a barely-tolerable outcome. I'll leave you to figure out which one. It wasn't the Chefs swapping Gatorade for cyclobenzadrine, that much I can tell you.

Am done ruminating on the Gabby Giffords shooting; it just makes me ill. MightyGodKing hits the high notes in his analysis ( Read more... )

I was randomly websurfing and flipping through Wikipedia -- as is my wont -- the other day when I stumbled headlong onto the entry for Leo Ryan, the congressman who was investigating Jonestown and killed in 1978...but I noted with no small sense of surprise that the article mentioned that he was the first and only congressman to be killed in the ( Read more... )

Electric Six's new venue: highway warning signs. With pics. Via Obscure Store.

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Sympathies to everyone in Europe -- or zipping through -- affected by this Scrabble-accident monstrosity lurching from the hellmouth that is Iceland. Never been there, but I've long had...suspicions. I can say no more here. ( 42 pics below.... )

Wilkinsburg police said they believe no students ingested the contents of 78 bags of heroin that were brought to school by an 8-year old on Tuesday ( Read more... )

Ricky Martin has announced that he is gay, ending a debate everyone stopped having roughly a decade ago. Choose your reaction from the following:( warning: image-heavy )

The eagles have started bombing us with fish.

In case you missed it, the difficult times hounding print journalism has claimed another victim, as The Onion has been sold to Chinese corporation Yu Wan Mei, prominent purveyor of powerful fish-related products. Don't miss any of today's stories, including Potato-Faced Youngster Lauded For Memorizing Primitive 26-Character Alphabet, Nothing At ( Read more... )

Via Obscure Store: Three days after a Klamath man was arrested at Wal-Mart for allegedly smashing several televisions with a softball bat, he was back at the scene of the crime - this time with a lamp.

How much more modern-Don-Quixote can you get than smashing TVs at Wal-Mart?

One of the drawbacks of the cashless society is we tend to spend a bit more -- not feeling the greenbacks somehow abstracts the notion of what we're paying and makes it a bit easier to rationalize the larger sums, I think. So we swipe and we spend maybe a few bucks more than we like. Happens to the best of us.

Unless you're Dale's daughter, who ( Read more... )